Fortnightly and Weekly Waste - The Debate Continues

At Strategy Committee on 7 November, the Council will be looking at its future waste procurement and is currently aiming to broadly keep its options open. I will report on the detail of this nearer to Streategy Committee.

However in order to determine it futre contract as well as aim to increase recycling, the Council is likely to reopen what waste is collected fortnightly and what is collected weekly.

In Sutton this is a touchy subject following the wheelie bin fiasco of 1998/02.

So far the Council the Council is clearly intending to keep food and other organic waste collected on a weekly basis and perhaps increase dry waste collected forthnightly.

Broadly this makes sense and should increase the borough recycling rate.

However it is possible that some non-organic waste may need collection and thus the Council propbaly needs to consider a "smell test" with anything deemed smelly after a forthnight collected!!:-)

I look forward to how the Council addresses this issue.